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[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Tallulah Bankhead
Age: 66 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 31
Died: 1968
Died: December 12
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Huntsville
Alabama
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!
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It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.
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Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.
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I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.
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Don't think this has taught me a lesson !
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For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
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A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!
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I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
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I have enemies I've never met - that's fame.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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